Perhaps a better goal: design a company that doesn't ask those kinds of interview questions.
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That is a good goal as well, but it is orthogonal to the original goal. The point of making it difficult to find tricky interview questions is that the language should be intuitive and avoid surprising corner cases like those that are used in interviews.
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Classify each of the following as a valid Swift identifier, valid Swift operator, or neither: 1. x 2. % 3. 🅐 4.
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in my own experience, Python does a wonderful job of thwarting interview questions devised by Java programmers
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I have opinions on this, but they won’t fit in a tweet.
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Okay, Javascript: function ಠ_ಠ ( ) { /* is it valid function name? */ }
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I’m pretty sure Rust fails that test badly
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union union union…
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A friend described interviewing as a programmer at an investment bank, so he was reading the ISO C++ standard. They didn’t expect you to necessarily write C++, but it was a perfect source of tricky interview questions.
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